Introducing Phala Dark Wallet: The Seed of the Age of Blockchain Privacy
You might have been used to search for everything you need on explorers: Polkascan, Etherscan, etc. Indeed, It’s hard to deny that, sometimes, we do enjoy the joy of being an “on-chain detective”: to observe what one does, who he trusts, and how rich he is, with only a single line of address.
It’s not easy to match on-chain addresses with real-life identity. Still, a human can be tracked and sourced based on his transfers and extrinsics.
We understand that blockchain and digital assets can be utilized by illegal deals and supervision should not be absent facing digital crime issues. But human holds “the freedom of invisibility”, offline or on-chain. That is privacy.
The Internet was invented because we wanted to learn and build connections unrestrictedly. Ironically, we don’t seem to be freer using digital payment than the time our wallets were full of coins and bills. A good symptom is there are projects starting to revive the anonymity of digital transactions (anonymous token solutions using zero-knowledge prove), and this will not be the field where Phala flaunt our feathers.
We focus more on the protection strategy than the asset itself, and we have plenty of work to do: the “TEE — Blockchain — Client” trilateral communication for financing and cybersecurity user cases, a decentralized TEE computing power control system, the paradigm of a pRuntime on Phala Network, etc.
But besides all, for every human, we are hoping to define a next-generation privacy-protecting wallet — a killer app that you can hide your private assets and data, anytime at anywhere, as you wish.
💾 Phala Dark Wallet
for this version, Phala Dark Wallet consists of two modules:
- Normal Wallet: simple and the same as other wallets
- Dark Wallet: secret assets converted into “invisible” on-chain.
And you will see 2 types of assets:
- PHA — Phala Network native token
- Other assets — Self-issued private tokens (like ERC20s)
Function:
✅ Convert — Convert your asset from public (visible) to private (invisible) or in turn
✅ Secret Transfer — Transfer your dark asset to a recipient, which will not be identified as a “transfer” in block explorers but a phalamodule.
✅ Issue Secret Token — Define and issue your own secret assets whose balance and transfer records will be invisible as well
What dark asset is to normal asset is like what cash to digital payments. Of course, digital payments are more convenient; but I bet you would love to use cash if you want to protect the time and location of some secret trades. :p
📗 Tutorial
Issue Secret Token
Convert Your Asset
🎁 10 PHA | Test and Claim
https://github.com/Phala-Network/phala-docs/wiki/Test-and-Claim
🎁 Up to 30 PHA | Secret Oracle Game
https://github.com/Phala-Network/phala-docs/wiki/Secret-Oracle-Game
💯Prize Giving List
https://github.com/Phala-Network/phala-docs/wiki/Prize-Giving
There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves.
— George Bernard Shaw, Confucius, in Pt. III : The Thing Happens
About Phala
A Substrate-based confidential smart contract blockchain on which you can develop confidential-preserving and privacy-first blockchain apps. Member of Substrate Builders Program starting lineup. Recipient of Web3 Foundation Grant.
